The absolute best feature in SOTA...

Experience Attenuation.

Sitting for extended periods of time causes more health problems than smoking. God help those who sit and smoke.

Online gaming so frequently demands extended periods of sitting, especially MMOs. The race to be better than your neighbor forces gamers to sit for many hours without a break.

While the attenuation system gives you the option to play nonstop, the rate of return diminishes once you attenuate. This gives the smart gamer an option to every hour stand up, exercise, accomplish chores, rest their eyes, without fear of falling behind.

I love the Upper Tears routine of gaming for 30 minutes or so, then having about a 30 minutes break. I hope more areas enable this style of play. I wish more MMOs would adopt similar strategic play styles.

So sincerely thank you for this rewarding, healthy, and enjoyable gaming mechanic.

@DarkStarr

 

Great, but not best.

Best for me: Housing And next year ill add crafting.

 

Music .-.

Cant pay my lot rent cuz i keep standin on the overworld playinsongs

 

"Experience Attenuation."

Never heard of this before. Might be a helpful tooltip. What does it exactly mean, technically speaking?

 

It is a cap on the xp you can earn in 1 hour. Its set at 1000000

 

It reduces (scales down but does not stop) the amount of XP you gain after you have gained 1 million in a 1 hour moving average.
Beyond the OPs reason, it has the huge benefit that lower level scenes can be made with high density and respawn rates for lower level characters, without that being unbalanced for high level character. Even if a high level character can steam roll the content solo that is more aimed at being challenging to lower level characters, they will not be able to get excessive XP from doing this. So it free up the developers to not have to consider that and nerf low level scenes (affect low level characters) because of high level characters.

Spung

 

I actually like it as well. I really don't think anyone should exceed the 1Mil per hour. Agree with OP that is is good... not sure if it is the BEST thing, but it is definitely a very good thing to have in place for all of the reasons stated above.

 

Combat for me Using the locked glyph 'heat' system after experimenting with many different modes. Considering the various attunements of mobs, buffs, debuffs, resists, I love it. Followed by character development with the infinite builds due to the open skill trees and the care that needs to be taken with having too many skills up.

Ah sorry, I think i misread the purpose of the thread.

 

I like they capped it like this my only complaint is the harder more risky stuff has the same cap. No reward for risk!

Imagine doing the kobald cp and getting 1.5 mill in 30 mins superstition1.25 mill in 30 mins etc.

Then they could make nice hard 45 mins dungeons and reward them accordingly.

I also find it funny UT has become a unit of measure. I hear it all the time i need to gm this that's 1 ut or 4 ut etc.

 

Ergonomic desk.

 

I'd never heard UT as a unit of measure. ROFL. That's just outstanding and very practical.

Fenris

 

I like apples.

 

For years they told us : Don't eat fatty foods, don't eat dairy, it will kill you. Today we know that is also wrong. I say the same thing about those that don't want us to sit. It's absurd !

 

I like also this feature.

 

For me it's the skulls! Oh and the community.

 

OT but what the heck.
The problem is with THEY. The press has always been abysmal at reporting science. Always sensational, but never the important facts of group size, methods, replication, standard deviation, sponsors. Science never said don't eat dairy or fat, the press did - well and some sensationalist "scientists" or paid shills.

 

Windowed mode. I can watch Netflix and play at same time.

 

POTs... #shockamazementdisbelief

See... I have a problem with this... "Demands extended periods of sitting..." "The race to be better than your neighbor FORCES gamers..."
Bovine poopoo... There is no demand... No one's forcing anyone... It's a freakin' Choice.
Just like the much maligned "Grind." There is no grind if you choose not to grind.

"Doctor Doctor! My head hurts! Please make it stop!" a man complained while repeatedly bashing himself in the head with a ball-peen hammer.

 

We evolved to walk around, if we sit in one spot, even with an ergonomic desk, our health will decline.

 

tis the world these days mate.